Abdul Malik Zadeh

Abdul Malik Zadeh (27 June 1970-29 April 2009) was a Sunni sheikh from Iraq.

Biography
Abdul Malik Zadeh was born on 27 June 1970 in Haditha, Iraq to the Sunni Muslim al-Sharekh tribe of Arabs. He became the sheikh of a local tribe of the al-Sharekh, and during the Iraq War he gave his support to al-Qaeda in Iraq against the occupying United States. In some meetings with his tribe, Zadeh told them to fight against the "crusaders" of the USA and keep non-Sunnis out of Iraq; his anti-West rhetoric inspired many to join the Iraqi insurgents. Zadeh was killed on 29 April 2009 in a sectarian bombing by Shi'ite militants in Baghdad at the age of 39.